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Post by Greg H on Aug 5, 2014 17:44:59 GMT
I saw this and I thought it would be of interest to the members here. Now, I am pretty certain it would be completely impossible to recover missing soundtracks from old black and white prints using this method, but I found it intersting, you may too  |
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Post by John Green on Aug 5, 2014 20:58:55 GMT
Didn't the KGB once work out what was being typed in the U.S. embassy in Moscow by working on the sounds different letters made hitting the keyboard?
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Post by Greg H on Aug 5, 2014 21:13:09 GMT
Wow, haven't heard that one (sounds likely enough), but I do know there used to be a way of covertly scanning the text on an old style monitor screen from across the road. Spooky stuff!
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Post by RWels on Aug 5, 2014 21:17:39 GMT
Didn't the KGB once work out what was being typed in the U.S. embassy in Moscow by working on the sounds different letters made hitting the keyboard? Seems an iphone lying on the same desk that you're working at can do it too. |
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Post by RWels on Aug 5, 2014 21:28:44 GMT
I saw this and I thought it would be of interest to the members here. Now, I am pretty certain it would be completely impossible to recover missing soundtracks from old black and white prints using this method, but I found it intersting, you may too No idea the results would be that good. Could it be a hoax? After all, it took quite a while to get the oldest phonautogram played back: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhonautographMeanwhile, for television without audio track, there's a simple solution. Get the script, possibly a lipreader, and re-dub the whole thing. Although it requires more effort to do it really well, it can be done with most scripted, non-musical shows. One originally censored scene in Spartacus was restored that way. Suppose something first class turns up without audio track or known off-air, say, Dad's Army or The Avengers, using the right people it could work. |
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Post by Alan Jeffries on Aug 5, 2014 21:37:58 GMT
My first thought was to check the calendar to see if I'd slipped back to April 1st.
It still seems a little far fetched though. Sound travels via waves through the air and not through movement of an object.
I know the world is full of secrets and strange things, but I find it difficult to get my head around this one.
Mind you, great plot point for a film. High speed camera poised on roof 60 stories up recording the movement of a plant in adjoining building where the secret plan is being hatched by nefarious goons!
Confused as always
Alan
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Post by Greg H on Aug 5, 2014 22:15:10 GMT
To be fair, this could be an elaborate hoax There is always that possibility, but if so it is an interesting one. I had difficulty believing chroma dot colour recovery until I saw it on DVD. This is perhaps a similar level of technological sorcery? Dunno. I think there is zero chance of this being applied to restoring missing sound from television that is represented with motion image, but I thought it relevant enough to discussion on this board to post as people might find it interesting (also, the sources for this seem to be pretty legit MIT is kinda official, in collaboration with Microsoft and Adobe) |
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Post by RWels on Aug 5, 2014 23:52:21 GMT
No, it is definately a hoax the more I think about it. I've heard of optical soundtracks, but this is ridiculous!
Nevertheless, I still have no idea how the Baird discs worked.
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Post by John Green on Aug 6, 2014 0:25:02 GMT
And nobody mentioned this: www.imdb.com/title/tt0069316/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Added: I've been trying to remember something I read about recovering the sound of the Eolian Harp-in the context that everything is recoverable.Anybody know where it's from? |
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Post by Greg H on Aug 6, 2014 4:13:11 GMT
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Post by John Green on Aug 6, 2014 8:25:16 GMT
When I'm multi-tasking by eating and talking simultaneously,friends and family say that the rate and speed at which foodstuff flies towards them is one of the chief indicators of what I'm saying. This is good on Chaucer's 'House of Fame',though it renders it into modern English: itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002876.html I'll make it into Pseud's Corner yet... |
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 6, 2014 8:53:18 GMT
Just got round to watching the video : most amusing. Disappointing that they didn't feature any spirit voices, EVP style.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 10:06:11 GMT
Strange hearing the speaker referring to "a bag of chips". Wouldn't it be "box of fries" for an American?
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Post by Rob Moss on Aug 6, 2014 10:11:32 GMT
No, they were talking about a packet of crisps!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 10:50:58 GMT
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